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Photo inside a gold-decorated temple hall with a red-curtained shrine and a golden deity murti garlanded with orange and yellow flowers at left. At right, a golden seated figure wearing a red turban and gold-embroidered yellow garment, with red-and-white garlands, sits beside a golden murti and a dark stone figure adorned with a garland. In the foreground a long table draped with green and maroon cloths is heaped with folded silk saris in purple, blue, yellow, orange and pink, gold jewellery, and garlands of red and white flowers. Behind the table, several men stand in a row with hands folded in namaste; the man at front left wears a maroon shirt and a red tilak, and others wear white and blue shirts. A partially visible figure in white dhoti stands at the right edge. The signage at right partly reads KAIL... and Toronto, Canada.
Photo 139 of 144 from 28 December 2025

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